fauvette

fauvette

English

Etymology

French fauvette, diminutive of fauve (“fawn-coloured”).

Noun

fauvette (plural fauvettes)

1. A small songbird, such as a nightingale or warbler.
   • 1853, James Rennie, Bird-architecture (page 287)

     On the other hand a young owl, which had as yet only been fed by hand, began of itself to eat by devouring a fauvette which was lodged with it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fauvette in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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French

Etymology

From fauve +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo.vɛt/

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Noun

fauvette f (plural fauvettes)

1. warbler
   • 1976, Michel Fugain et le Big Bazar, "Le printemps".

     L'hirondelle et la fauvette, c'est la forêt qui me l'a dit / L'hirondelle et la fauvette, ont déjà fait leur nid

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Further reading

• “fauvette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.